Alejandro1 comments on Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alejandro1 18 January 2012 05:35:43AM 3 points [-]

Newcomb's problem doesn't lose much of its edge if you allow Omega not to be a perfect predictor (say, it is right 95% of the time). This is surely possible without a detailed simulation that might be confused with backwards causation.